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Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London, EC2V 5AE

0.19km

Located in the Guildhall, collection includes art and cultural artefacts about London, Victorian-era works, remains...Read more

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Museum of London
Museum of London
Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN

0.4km

City's history, culture, archaeologyRead more

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Dennis Severs' House
Dennis Severs' House
Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street, London, E1 6BX

0.83km

Enactments of life in the 18th and 19th centuriesRead more

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Museum of Immigration and Diversity
Museum of Immigration and Diversity
Museum of Immigration and Diversity, 19 Princelet Street, London, E1 6QH

0.96km

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Jack the Ripper Museum
Jack the Ripper Museum
Jack the Ripper Museum, 12 Cable Street, London, E1 8JG

1.04km

History of the East London in the 1880s, providing a serious examination of the crimes of Jack the Ripper within the...Read more

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Islington Museum
Islington Museum
Islington Museum, 245 Saint John Street, London, EC1V 4NB

1.09km

Local historyRead more

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Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA

1.46km

Changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day. Also...Read more

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Cuming Museum
Cuming Museum
Cuming Museum, 5 Ethel Street, London, SE17 1NH

1.53km

Local history, culture; small collection of Ancient Egyptian objects. Closed since March 2013 due to fire damage.Read more

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Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ

1.54km

History of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children, art by many of Britain's most...Read more

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Jewel Tower
Jewel Tower
Jewel Tower, Abingdon Street, London, SW1P 3JX

1.79km

Operated by English Heritage, one of only two surviving sections of the mediaeval royal Palace of Westminster,...Read more

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Hackney Museum
Hackney Museum
Hackney Museum, 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ

2.68km

Local history and culture[9]Read more

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Blue Plaques in London

Maria Louise Ramé Blue Plaque - Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) 1839-1908 novelist lived here
Turkish Bronze Gun And John Duckworth Bronze Plaque - This Turkish bronze gun was cast in 1790-91 (AH 1212) in the reign of  the Ottoman Sultan Selim III. It weighs 5.2 tonnes, fired stone shot   of just over 56 kilos and is one of two taken by Admiral Sir John Duckworth  from Kinali Island in the Sea of Marmara in 1807.    The gun was presented to the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich by  HRH Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland on 21 October 1807.  The cast-iron display carriage was made later by the Royal Carriage  Department of the Royal Arsenal, Wo
Charles Dickens Blue Plaque - Charles Dickens 1812-1870 writer, journalist and social reformer
Philip Henry Gosse And Edmund Gosse Blue Plaque - Here lived Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888  zoologist Sir Edmund Gosse 1849-1928  writer and critic born here
Joseph Lyons Blue Plaque - Sir Joseph Lyons 1847-1917 Pioneer of mass catering lived here
Henry Austen And Jane Austen Blue Plaque - Jane Austen novelist, stayed with her brother Henry in a house on this site 1814-1815

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